Conference
Planet formation imager: Project update
| Title: | Planet formation imager: Project update |
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| Authors: | Monnier, J. D., Ireland, M., Kraus, S., Alonso-Herrero, A., Bonsor, A., Baron, Fabien, Bayo, A., Berger, J.-P., Boyajian, T., Chiavassa, A., Ciardi, D., Creech-Eakman, M., De Wit, W.-J., Defrere, Denis, Dong, R., Duchêne, G., Espaillat, C., Gallenne, A., Gandhi, P., Gonzalez, J.-F., Haniff, C., Hoenig, S., Ilee, J., Isella, A., Jensen, E., Juhasz, A., Kane, S., Kishimoto, M., Kley, W., Kral, Q., Kratter, K., Labadie, L., Lacour, S., Laughlin, G., Le Bouquin, J.-B., Michael, E., Meru, F., Millan-Gabet, R., Millour, F., Minardi, S., Morbidelli, A., Mordasini, C., Morlok, A., Mozurkewich, D., Nelson, R., Olofsson, J., Oudmaijer, R., Packham, C., Paladini, C., Panic, O., Petrov, R., Pope, B., Pott, J.-U., Quiroga-Nunez, L. H., Ramos Almeida, C., Raymond, S. N., Regaly, Z., Reynolds, M., Ridgway, S., Rinehart, S., Schreiber, M., Smith, M., Stassun, K., Surdej, Jean, Ten Brummelaar, T., Tristram, K., Turner, N., Tuthill, P., Van Belle, G., Vasisht, G., Wallace, A., Weigelt, G., Wishnow, E., Wittkowski, M., Wolf, S., Young, J., Zhao, M., Zhu, Z., Zúñiga-Fernández, S., Tuthill, P. G., Creech, Eakman, M. J., Merand, A. |
| Source: | Proceedings of SPIE: The International Society for Optical Engineering, 10701 (2018-07-01); 2018 Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VI, 11 June 2018 through 15 June 2018 |
| Publisher Information: | International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), 2018. |
| Publication Year: | 2018 |
| Subject Terms: | Infrared interferometry, PFI, Planet formation, Extrasolar planets, Telescopes, Dust structure, Large aperture telescopes, Protoplanetary disks, Quantitative detection, Space interferometry, Technology development, Interferometry, Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences, Space science, astronomy & astrophysics, Physique, chimie, mathématiques & sciences de la terre, Aérospatiale, astronomie & astrophysique |
| Description: | The Planet Formation Imager (PFI) is a near- and mid-infrared interferometer project with the driving science goal of imaging directly the key stages of planet formation, including the young proto-planets themselves. Here, we will present an update on the work of the Science Working Group (SWG), including new simulations of dust structures during the assembly phase of planet formation and quantitative detection efficiencies for accreting and non-accreting young exoplanets as a function of mass and age. We use these results to motivate two reference PFI designs consisting of a) twelve 3m telescopes with a maximum baseline of 1.2km focused on young exoplanet imaging and b) twelve 8m telescopes optimized for a wider range of young exoplanets and protoplanetary disk imaging out to the 150K H2O ice line. Armed with 4 x 8m telescopes, the ESO/VLTI can already detect young exoplanets in principle and projects such as MATISSE, Hi-5 and Heimdallr are important PFI pathfinders to make this possible. We also discuss the state of technology development needed to make PFI more affordable, including progress towards new designs for inexpensive, small field-of-view, large aperture telescopes and prospects for Cubesat-based space interferometry. © 2018 SPIE. Giant Magellan Telescope |
| Document Type: | conference paper http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794 conferenceObject |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | urn:issn:0277-786X; urn:issn:1996-756X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2312683 |
| Access URL: | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/228659 |
| Rights: | open access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Accession Number: | edsorb.228659 |
| Database: | ORBi |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2312683 |
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